Lower Back Pain Relief - New Clinical Guidelines

Aug. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Canberra-based health consultancy, Global Back Care, has released a new musculo-skeletal health program designed to help people with back pain work out how to identify the cause of their pain and how to fix the problem themselves.

The Fix Back Pain program comes in the form of an ebook that’s available from the http://www.globalbackcare.com website.

What’s unique about the program is that it treats lower back pain as a fitness problem, generated by a lack of strength and flexibility.

According to Global Back Care Director, John Miller, ‘This concept flies in the face of the usual clinical guidelines followed by the medical industry which involve sending people to the radiologist for an X-ray, to the physiotherapist for a rub down and the chemist for a pill to mask the pain.’

The X-ray is usually useless because it shows what’s happened, not what’s caused what’s happened, plus the report is likely to be expressed in gobbledegook;

‘ … there is a central disc protrusion with a focul annular tear … facet joint arthropathy and ligamentum flavum hypertrophy … there is a disc bulge which is paracentral to the left side and extended in to the foramen and far laterally … there is mild crowding of the cauda equine ….

John Miller said that, ‘When it comes to anything related to joint and muscle pain, the medical industry has a blind spot. Doctors are not trained to deal with fitness-related issues. They have great difficulty diagnosing the likely causes of back pain and because of that, lack an ability to prescribe a course of action that restores poor function to good.’

‘It’s likely that physiotherapists and their chiropractic colleagues will want to rub, crunch, heat and vibrate the sport where it hurts, rather than people themselves loosening the tight muscles and strengthening the weak muscles elsewhere in the body that are the main cause of the problem.’

According to John Miller, ‘By improving strength and flexibility - and getting the body back into better alignment - there’s a good chance back pain will go away.

The Global Back Care program delivers a simple, cost effective technique for increasing strength and flexibility, and getting bones back in better alignment. Do this and there’s a good chance you will have lower back pain relief (http://www.globalbackcare.com/).